How often do you see your close friends

i picked "every month or so, as i am isolated" to give myself the benefit of the doubt that i'm not lazy.

it's true though... i live in a very spread-out region and it's hard to get people with adult responsibilities and relationships to be in the same place at the same time.

Once a week to ten days. I don't count drinking buddies.

'less than that'

the ~5 people I would consider my best friends all live in different time zones now.

does 'see on facebook' count

about once a week, sometimes twice

every month or so, i live a couple of hours away from all of them.

I'm not prepared to click "never" yet but this thread has depressingly made me realise that it is less than once a month.

once a year

some of them weekly, some of them less than once a month. lifestyles innit. + I am sitting next to one of my bestest friends in the world as I type this, who I haven't seen for three years, because we live in different hemispheres.

Real life bros are sometimes hard 2 manage
Bros are insecure
Feelings get hurt
But I am the lonebro
[via not alone]
[via via the internet]

vibing out on blogs, message boards, and social networks
searching for buzzbands
LOLing @ memes

Not enough. Sadface.

Ditto. But this is because (1) I am a hermit and (2) they keep moving away (this is not my fault) and (3) the ones that are still here have families and partners and lives and stuff to be getting on with, and hanging out time just drifts away into nothing (I also have a tendency to get on with non-friend stuff, so I'm not apportioning blame or owt).

I like to think this doesn't matter, because I still stay in touch with them even if I don't physically see them, which is what makes them close friends.

The framing of the poll depresses me, because it's maybe every six months and I thought I was doing quite well

but that can be doing quite well, if there's geographic divides etc. i see plenty of my mates tbh, making the effort to all get together once a month or so is still pretty good.

What would be really depressing for me would be to graph this over the past 20 years:

http://www.skwirk.com/content/upload/images/Secondary/NSW/year_8/geography/geography_skills/tp4/ch2/graph3.jpg

I had no idea my life was mirroring the population of Australia's states and territories so closley.

Same boat as iatee, all my 5 or so very best friends live in other countries. I guess I see each one about twice a year.

My best friends are basically all from college and most live in other cities. Even the ones in NYC tend to be an hour a way by public transit.

The framing of the poll depresses me, because it's maybe every six months and I thought I was doing quite well

Sorry--I was feeling depressed about my own state, so it rather inflected the way I put things. 'Glad' to see I'm not the only one in this state, though.

You're my best friends. I see you every day.

:-D :-D :-D

Every day, we are flat/housemates

About once or twice a week. None of my friends went the college route, I however did - but there are no dorms at the university I attend (University Colorado @ Denver... everybody rents an apartment round here) so it's somewhat difficult making friends.

i want to cry

once every couple of months, mostly because I've got a kid, though most of my friends don't live that close either

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

kelpolaris, I had trouble making friends in college too. It seemed impossible to get them to seek me out, I always had to try to involve myself with them, no matter how often I saw them seeking each other out.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Poor lonely ILX.

I feel less bad about myself, at any rate.

Once or twice a week. Used to be more than that, but unfortunately the combination of work + studies has narrowed my options for weekday activities.

But I guess I'm lucky that I was born and have lived my whole life in the biggest metropol in Finland, so few of my friends from youth have moved away from here, except for the handful who live abroad.

WTF, I thought I would be a freak for only seeing her once a week. So uh, yeah, once a week. Used to call eachother tons but I am not in the right mood now to do that.

Then again, you tend to do that (see eachother more) more when you're younger. Once you hit your twenties/thirties, you tend to see your friends less I guess...

one is a roommate so every day, others are elsewhere in country currently so a few times a year

Once or twice a week.

I live with my big bro and we're tight bros from way back but that's sort of cheating.

almost every day and I don't have roommates. Life rules right now.